IScience

As the end of term is fast approaching, I’ve been spending every available moment in the lab trying to finalise things before Christmas. Due to the nature of my project, the equipment we’re using takes a considerable amount of time to optimise for what we’re trying to achieve, and this isn’t always easy! However, now […]

Transitioning back to university life after time away never feels like an easy process, but now that every module is underway and projects have been mapped out towards July, graduating is starting to feel like a tangible goal. Last week the complex systems module began by looking at the emergent properties of large systems. A […]

With the first term now underway it seems as good a time as any to give a summary of the masters year on the four-year natural sciences course, and what I’ll be writing about over the next nine months. Doing a masters in natural sciences consists of four modules running right through all three terms, […]

It’s now just weeks away from the start of term, which for me means starting my final year on the MSci course. After a brief holiday away from Leicester I’ve been busying myself with the basics of microcontrollers in preparation for the fourth year programming module. This is something I’ve always wanted to get into, […]

Today was a significant day for the natural sciences course here at Leicester, where alumni, students, staff, contributors to the degree and the general public were invited to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Dr Kevin Fong gave a talk on his career as an interdisciplinary scientist, spanning an education in astrophysics and medicine, before embarking on […]

Last Friday was the final day in the SURE programme here at Leicester, culminating in a day of presentations from all students involved. For the last six weeks I’ve been constructing different kinds of neural networks and seeing how classical and quantum mechanical models compare as a consistent model for associative memory. The idea is […]

Now that A-level results are in and many are confirming their place at university for the next three or four years, it seems apt to give some advice for those about to start natural sciences here. So here’s some things I wish I had known back in 2011. (Bear in mind this is just my […]

It’s been several years in the making, but last month the first issue of Frontier went on offer for free across campus. Run by postgraduates, the magazine aims to showcase the many areas of research going on at Leicester, pitched at an accessible level for those outside the discipline. The idea here is to […]

This week students from all years of I-science joined together in shooting each other with sometimes-working lasers for the nostalgic pleasure in seeing your assigned game character somewhere on the laser tag score board, and being the third in a series of annual first socials, it may have just been the best one yet. Big […]

With induction week over, third year is now underway with linear algebra, programming, molecular evolution, a journal club, and a lot of papers on solvating metals in helium nanodroplets. The first social event held by the I-Science Society is also now just around the corner, with laser tag taking place this coming Monday, and it […]